ARISTOLOCHIACEAE Jussieu Back to Piperales
aromatic; simple. Lamina entire (usually), or dissected; when dissected, palmatifid (trilobed); palmately veined, or pinnately veined; cross-venulate; often cordate. Leaves exstipulate (but sometimes with the first 1–2 leaves of the suppressed axillary branches simulating stipules); leaf development not ‘graminaceous’.